A History of the Crusades, Volume 1Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is being reissued. This volume deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. As Runciman says in his preface: 'Whether we regard the Crusades as the most tremendous and most romantic of Christian adventures, or as the last of the barbarian invasions, they form a central fact in medieval history. Before their inception the centre of our civilization was placed in Byzantium and in the lands of the Arab caliphate. Before they faded out the hegemony in civilization had passed to western Europe. Out of this transference modern history was born.' |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingTo me this is the basic book for the student of the crusades. Runciman began as a Byzantine specialist, and his views are relatively free of the "Westerners good, Arabs bad" dichotomy that sometimes ... Read full review
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User Review - jonfaith - LibraryThingWhen Raymond of Aguilers later that morning went to visit the Temple area he had to pick his way through corpses and blood that reached up to his knees. As much as I enjoyed the scholar's book on the ... Read full review
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A History of the Crusades: First Crusade and the foundation of the Kingdom ... Steven Runciman No preview available - 1991 |
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| Title | A History of the Crusades, Volume 1 Volume 1 of A History of the Crusades 3 Volume Paperback Set A History of the Crusades, Steven Runciman, ISBN 0521205549, 9780521205542 Penguin history |
| Author | Steven Runciman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 052134770X, 9780521347709 |
| Length | 394 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Medieval History / General |
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